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Uber is adding London public transport information to its apps

The company has a long history of run-ins with Transport for London (TfL)

Uber is integrating London public transport information into its app in a bid to compete with navigation apps including Citymapper and Google Maps.

Tube, train, bus, tram, shuttle and boat information data is now available under a Public Transport feature, providing users with fastest route, real-time schedules and walking directions to and from stops and stations.

Transport for London (TfL) said it was not involved in the new feature and that Uber was using its publicly-available data.

Public Transport will appear as a new tab within the app (Photo: Uber)

The government body revoked Uber’s licence to operate in the city after deciding it was not a “fit and proper” operator in September 2017, but the decision was overturned when the taxi company made a number of concessions last summer.

Uber announced a partnership with free public transit app Moovit in February, allowing it to draw live-time data, in addition to TfL’s bus and Tube information.

The ride-hailing company launched its first public transportation feature in the city of Denver, Colorado, in January, following a study from the University of Kentucky blaming its app for a fall in rail and bus ridership after it becomes available in a city.

TfL’s Tube network has 1.35bn passengers annually while more than 2.24bn passengers made a bus journey between 2017 and 2018, making it one of the busiest transport networks in the world.

Popular transit apps Citymapper and Google Maps already provide users with real-time updates to public transport across London and other global cities.

Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber chief executive, outlined the company’s ambitions to become a one-stop shop for transport during a visit to London last year.

Uber will now include London’s public transport information within its app (Photo: Uber)

“We ultimately want to be the platform for anyone in any part of the city, not just in the centre, to come to if they’re going from place A to B,” he told i.

“We want to do that same thing for food, we’ve got effort in enterprise, for example, with freight. We want to be that go-to mobility platform, whether you’re going to move on a car, or a bike, or ultimately the bus and the Tube service.”

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